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OK I'll take some folic acid at night with Plaquenil, and I am on fish oil, liquid (YUK) 5ml.
The good thing I am looking forward to is that if I have less pain, I will be able to do some decent exercises which will stop my muscles from wasting away.

Hi Steve.
Holiday was AMAZING, thanks for asking. Had an absolute blast. Was freezing cold though. Having some issues getting my INR back to normal range, probably from the change in diet and a bit of drinking I did but at least its not low.

Oh now it is 6 messages
No that would be 7 messages now, after this one
Oh Gosh, just check the messages down below and you will find out
Or if you are too lazy to count the messages I'll just tell you, I'm taking steroids now

I got my prescription in the mail today - just got my tablets from the pharmacist - now reading all the information - hopefully it will work. I am only on 5mg, so I am not anticipating any side effects, but I do hope it does help though, even though I am on a small dose

i grew up basically normal. could never compete well in sports.
no real health problems, just got everything that was going around.
always slightly unwell.
bad growing pains, awkward and clumsy.

my symptoms would wax and wain. sometimes good usually just annoying.
i had 2 or 3 mental breakdowns, due to stress. but usually i handled stress really well.
my mind would wander without me being able to focus properly.

i went to counsellors, but they could never relate to my description of my problem.
it was like i was in a helicopter overlooking my life, i could talk about it, (as a third party).

i was never great at school. i passed because everyone knew i tried hard. always only just making the grade.
orally, i did great, having to write what i knew, was a problem.

i had no staminer, sometimes even raising an arm was an issue.

what eventually led to my diagnosis, was pains in the legs and knees. and right shoulder blade.
i suspected blood clots, and was flying to and from work. working in the mines.
doctors could not find what was wrong, as usual.
eventually a doctor put enough together to send me to a rhuematologist.
i was origionally tested for lupus, to rule it out.

the fibromyalgia diagnoses came about 12 months later.
i have not worried testing for the other complaints, i treat them as symptoms of my main two illnesses.

In November 2012, my wife and I seperated.
My lupus has made me very impersonal, and I also fly off at unimportant things. My emotions are either on or off.
Luckily we still get on well. She just cannot live with the unemotional person I have become. My mood changes have destroyed my childrens relationship with me also.
They are afraid of me, and the mood changes.